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Two teens arrested after food fight gets out of control
    #7046776 - 06/14/07 04:20 PM (16 years, 9 months ago)

Sidhartha Banerjee, Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, June 14, 2007

It started as most food fights do, with one student hurling part of their lunch at an unsuspecting target.

But by the time the food flinging was over, vegetables and other foodstuffs had been replaced by pepper spray and police batons as officers attempted to quell what they called a "mini-riot" at a Montreal high school Wednesday.

It's the fifth such food fight in Quebec since the beginning of June and third in the Montreal area in less than a week.
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And all appear to have been pre-planned on the web and well advertised before the incidents occur, with video from the fights being broadcast on the Internet.

This time, two students face assault charges and five others face municipal bylaw infractions as clashes took place between some of a rowdy crowd of nearly 200 students and Montreal police.

"It was kind of like a small riot, believe it or not," said Sgt. Ian Lafreniere, a Montreal police spokesman. "At a certain point, there were distress calls from police officers at the scene."

There had been rumours in the halls for days that a food fight was going to happen at Honore Mercier High School and the vice-principal called police in anticipation that something was going to happen.

In fact, a 24-second video promoting the Honore Mercier food fight at the school appeared on the popular YouTube website five-days ago. The video dubbed the fight as "the moment of the year, the food fight 2007... comming soon."

Police were called as a precaution after a food fight erupted Tuesday at another nearby high school. But despite their presence, the fight went ahead as advertised in the school cafeteria just after 11 a.m. and police scrambled to call for reinforcements.

When the school emptied the cafeteria, the fight continued on the streets and in a nearby park.

A 14-year-old faces an assault charge after a vice-principal and a school therapist were both injured during the fight. A 16-year-old faces assault charges for a dust-up with a police officer.

"We do have one police officer was injured by kids who pushed him and another one who was tackled," Lafreniere said.

Officers used pepper spray and batons in some cases, Lafreniere said.

Some unidentified students complained to Radio-Canada television that police were heavy handed in their handling of students.

Nearby residents were equally displeased, but with the students.

One car was damaged and mothers with their young children in a nearby park said they felt terrorized and were "roughed up" by the teenagers who gathered there, police said.

Principal Luc Beliveau said administrators were aware something was up and he fully expects video from the food fight to be on the Internet soon.

A similar food fight took place last week at another high school in Longueuil, Que., south of Montreal. The food fight at Jacques Rousseau High School was also caught on video and posted on YouTube.


© The Gazette 2007

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Re: Two teens arrested after food fight gets out of control [Re: Rahie]
    #7046790 - 06/14/07 04:23 PM (16 years, 9 months ago)

I'm sure a cop would just love to hit a kid over the head with a baton for throwing some tater tots at him. That's how some police are. :O

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Re: Two teens arrested after food fight gets out of control [Re: Maverick]
    #7046807 - 06/14/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 9 months ago)

This food fight was the biggest ever.

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